Lovecraft was one of the greatest writers in the history of fantastic fiction. He was also a bigot— and that’s not just judging him by the PC standards of today. During the brief time he lived in New York, his friends would report how he would become enraged at having to sit in the same subway car as a black or a Jew. That doesn’t stop me from reading and enjoying his fiction, but it is a fact.
Nobody is denying it. This award isn’t about his social views but his influence as a writer. Strangely enough Lovecraft was married to a Jewish woman.
The cat in “Rats in the Walls.” What was his name again?